German Eurocrat demands EU members sign up to United States of Europe or quit bloc

Martin Schulz said he would only prop up Angela Merkel’s government if Germany agreed to support the ambitious vision

By Harry Cole, Westminster Correspondent

8th December 2017, 2:15 am

Updated: 8th December 2017, 2:41 am

GERMANY’S top Eurocrat demanded the creation of a “United States of Europe” – and insisted EU states should quit unless they were willing to back the super-project.

Arch-EU federalist Martin Schulz said he would only prop up Angela Merkel’s government in crunch Coalition talks if Germany agreed to support the ambitious vision for unprecedented integration over the next decade.

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Schulz says, “We want the United States of Europe”

The German Chancellor has struggled to form a government after an election setback in September and has asked the ex-EU Parliament president to rejoin her team.

The leader of Germany’s left-wing Social Democrats claimed the price of his support would be a “constitutional treaty to create a federal Europe.”